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The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.
The fluid is then cooled, compressed and reused ( closed cycle ), or ( less commonly ) dumped, and cool fluid pulled in ( open cycle air engine ).
a terrarium is a glass container usually closed can be open though a terrarium contains plants such as coleus, peperomia ect., it doesn't need to be watered because the water cycle happens inside it.
Nuclear gas core closed cycle rocket engine diagram, nuclear " light bulb "
In this basic design, the " open cycle ", the losses of nuclear fuel would be difficult to control, which has led to studies of the " closed cycle " or nuclear lightbulb engine, where the gaseous nuclear fuel is contained in a super-high-temperature quartz container, over which the hydrogen flows.
The present best of tech is the SAFE-400, which uses a 400kW thermal reactor and a gas turbine ( called a closed Brayton cycle ) to produce electric power.
There are two approaches: the open and closed cycle.
In the closed cycle, the reaction is entirely shielded from the propellant.
The closed cycle avoids contamination because the propellant can't enter the reactor itself, but the solution carries a significant penalty to the rocket's Isp.
The problem of finding a closed knight's tour is similarly an instance of the Hamiltonian cycle problem.
The Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company opened a dock at Port Talbot and the Llyfni Railway in 1897, followed by the Ogmore Valley Extension and the South Wales Mineral Junction Railway ( almost all these lines were closed as part of the Beeching Axe cuts in the mid 1960s, but some bridges and viaducts remain and many of these railway routes have re-emerged as recreational cycle tracks ).
* 1805 – Oliver Evans designed the first closed circuit refrigeration machine based on the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle.
A closed chain is called a cycle in a region if it is homologous to zero in the region, that is the winding number, expressed by the integral of 1 /( z − a ) over the closed chain is zero for each point ' a ' not in the region.
They patented their new " closed cycle " design in 1967.
Assen has an extensive network of off-road cycle paths, the city centre is closed to motor vehicles, and 41 % of all journeys in Assen are by bicycle.
Most river floods will not fill this volume in the few hours of the high tide cycle during which the barrier needs to be closed.
The cycle is closed by the < span style =" margin: 1px ; background :# 2060ff ;"> exhaust ( D ) </ span > stroke, characterized by isochoric cooling and isobaric compression processes.
In this situation desmodromic valves are used which, being closed by a positive mechanical action instead of by a spring, are able to cycle at the high speeds required in, for instance, motorcycle and auto racing engines.
In graph theory, the term cycle may refer one of two types of specific cycles: a closed walk or simple path.
* Euler cycle, a closed walk containing every edge exactly once
The cycle is closed by an isochoric process and an isobaric compression, characterizing the < span style =" margin: 1px ; background-color: # 639eff ;"> exhaust ( D ) </ span > stroke.

closed and engine
Seatbelts that automatically move into position around a vehicle occupant once the adjacent door is closed and / or the engine is started were developed as a countermeasure against low usage rates of manual seat belts, particularly in the United States.
Another engine used air from a closed chamber heated by an altar fire to displace water from a sealed vessel ; the water was collected and its weight, pulling on a rope, opened temple doors.
Animation of a schematic Newcomen steam engine .< BR >– Steam is shown pink and water is blue .< BR >– Valves move from open ( green ) to closed ( red )
Two-stroke cars ( such as those that were popular in Eastern Europe in mid-20th century ) were in particular danger and were usually fitted with freewheel mechanisms in the powertrain, allowing the engine to idle when the throttle was closed, requiring the use of the brakes in all slowing situations.
The Studebaker plant, which had been one of the city's largest industrial employers, closed in 1963 ; its engine block plant shuttered the following year.
Alpine then took the Michelotti cabriolet design and developed a 2 + 2 closed coupe ( or ' berlinette ') body for it: this became the Alpine A108, now featuring the Dauphine Gordini 845 cc engine, which on later models was bored out to give a capacity of 904 cc or ( subsequently ) 998 cc.
Animation of a schematic Newcomen steam engine .< BR >– Steam is shown pink and water is blue .< BR >– Valves move from open ( green ) to closed ( red )
With both air and fuel in a closed cylinder, compressing the mixture too much poses the danger of auto-ignition — or behaving like a diesel engine.
Any of these will result in some power to the solenoid, but not enough to hold the heavy contacts closed, so the starter motor itself never spins, and the engine does not start.
It is the inclusion of a regenerator that differentiates the Stirling engine from other closed cycle hot air engines.
Robert Stirling was the Scottish inventor of the first practical example of a closed cycle air engine in 1816, and it was suggested by Fleeming Jenkin as early as 1884 that all such engines should therefore generically be called Stirling engines.
As a consequence of closed cycle operation, the heat driving a Stirling engine must be transmitted from a heat source to the working fluid by heat exchangers and finally to a heat sink.
The regenerator is the key component invented by Robert Stirling and its presence distinguishes a true Stirling engine from any other closed cycle hot air engine.
After a successful blow ahead and a blow astern, the indicator cocks are closed on all the cylinders, and then the engine can be started on fuel.
They all have a closed engine bay floor.
At the appropriate time in the compression cycle of the engine, the port would briefly be opened and closed allowing the fuel / air mixture in the cylinder to be ignited by the flame.
Johncock's own engine expired just as Foyt had closed to within eight seconds back after both drivers ' final pit stops, and Foyt passed for the win.
" The high compression ratio of the engine can also assist in slowing down a machine ; if the throttle is closed the engine may stop.
The fluid is then cooled, compressed and reused ( closed cycle ), or ( less commonly ) dumped, and cool fluid pulled in ( open cycle air engine ).

closed and actually
They proposed that, of all closed classical orbits traced by a mechanical system in its phase space, only the ones that enclosed an area which was a multiple of Planck's constant were actually allowed.
The round can also said to be closed before it has actually ended if there are still players remaining to act, but they will not be entitled to raise either because the last raise was a sub-minimum all-in raise ( see poker table stakes rules ) or because the limit (" cap ") on allowed raises has been reached.
The Congressional appropriations were small and the Navy had little need for the Yard, which was actually closed from 1898 to 1900 and the personnel reassigned.
Although they did not actually find The Undertaker, the case had been closed ( the literal case had been shut ) and thus, they solved the mystery.
On the other hand, what is actually talked about behind the closed doors of the palace is not known.
Other studies suggest that the stabilimenta may actually lead predators to the spider ; species such as A. keyserlingi place their web predominantly in closed, complex habitats such as among sedges.
The high school, which actually served grades 7-12, closed at the end of the 2004-2005 school year.
Armstrong explained that God was not a closed Trinity but actually building a family through the Holy Spirit, which he considered God's powerful unifying essence and which guides and brings to remembrance those things which Christ taught, but is not a distinct personality like the Father and the Son.
Their Netvigator service has actually closed down in some geographies where a service was initially offered.
The spiral valve of the conus arteriosus is open, the bypass arterioles of the third and fourth gill arches ( which do not actually have gills ) are shut, the second, fifth and sixth gill arch arterioles are open, the ductus arteriosus branching off the sixth arteriole is open, and the pulmonary arteries are closed.
In fact, they agree in the sense that when A is the ring of polynomials over some algebraically closed field k, the maximal ideals of A are ( as discussed in the previous paragraph ) identified with n-tuples of elements of k, their residue fields are just k, and the " evaluation " maps are actually evaluation of polynomials at the corresponding n-tuples.
It is possible, that the lack of this special depicting programm influenced later ancient Greek historians in their assumptions, that Khufu could have actually closed all temples and prohibited any sacrifice.
Before Thompson closed it in June 2003, the website had indicated that a handful of flights during the company's first week of proposed service in July 2003 had actually sold out and reservations could not be made.
Working behind closed doors, it took a little more than a year before Nokia actually started showing off next-gen titles such as System Rush: Evolution and Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep, with the fighting game ONE perhaps being the most visually impressive-even making use of motion capture.
The long opening shot tracks from the marquee of The Reseda Theater ( actually long closed ) down the block and across a side street to the club entrance, then inside.
In the process the main melting shop and the rolling mill were to be closed ; however, the mill was actually kept open after the planned closure date as the production could not be handled at Rotherham.
On most antique secretaries and also on most reproductions the user has to pull out two small wooden planks called sliders ( sometimes " lopers ") in order to support the desktop, before actually turning the desktop from its closed, angled, position to its normal horizontal working position.
More commonly called simply the " Manitou Incline ," the Mount Manitou Scenic Incline Railway -- actually a funicular up the side of a peak called Rocky Mountain located adjacent to Mount Manitou -- was operated by the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway until the Incline was closed by a rockslide in 1990.
He was telling Chris to hurry because the portal was actually closing, and had Chris remained there for any longer than a few more seconds, he would have been cut in two as the portal closed with half his body in the other dimension.
Archbishop Samuel Cardinal Stritch, discovering that only 12 of the 255 children were actually orphans and only five of them were Slavs, closed the orphanage in 1956.
Within Quebec, changes to the treatment of French-speakers within the federal public service were met with approval mixed with a media scepticism that this actually helped the unilingual French-speaking majority of Quebecers, who continued to be excluded from some federal jobs designated " bilingual ", since by definition a " bilingual " job requires the use of English, and is therefore closed to a unilingual Francophone.
When a frivolous play was performed for the queen at the Opera by a French theatre troupe, the king actually closed the Royal Swedish Opera down in 1806, though officially because of the costs ; it remained closed until 1809.
You cannot actually see the park from the streets, just the dirt road and a big gate, which is closed and locked at night.

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